A present to myself

I recently treated myself to some hand made metallic watercolours from The Art Spirits, who have an Etsy shop as well as their own website.  The paints just contain pigment and a binder and are made in the UK.  I had previously bought a silver and a gold watercolour from them so I knew they were really good quality, creamy, easy to use paints.  I used the gold a lot last year and it was so much better than any of the branded gouache/watercolour paints I have.  I decided to go for a twelve half pan set and happily chose my colours from 'glistening darkness' to 'true silver'.  The paints came beautifully wrapped and packaged, with a few extra little surprises added in.  Even the paper that the individual pans are wrapped in is really pretty, and is linked to the colour inside.  I shall use the papers in collage work this year. 

So, here is my selection, all unwrapped and ready to try.  The pans have a magnetic strip on the base, to stop them sliding around (or falling out).

There are little flower shapes attached to the inside of the tin ready to have the colour swatches added.

Here they are all filled in.  Of course, the photo gives no idea just how metallic the paints are, but they are wonderful!  (I think you can tell that I love them.)